I miss this group...

About a year and a half ago I had my second cataract done (toric lenses,
+$1K over what medicare pays). Vision fine blablabla, but it took the
swelling longer to go down in this eye.

BUT a couple of months ago I noticed that bright lights (oncoming car headlights, for instance) seemed to emit narrow rays at 45 degrees
clockwise from vertical. The width of the ray is the exact width of the
light source, and the length relates to the brightness. I can see
THROUGH the ray, but it's annoying. I don't know when this arose since
I rarely drive at night, which is about the only time I would see bright lights.

My ophthalmologist didn't know anything and kind of dismissed it. The
Costco optometrist (I really like the guy -- careful and not stupid)
thought maybe I was seeing the edge of the IOL somehow. I wanted
multifocal contacts, but he said that I have enough residual astigmatism
that I would be really unhappy with them. I have a set of monovision
contacts (non-dominant eye +2 for reading) now that I kind of like, but
not for driving...

BUT a friend just had her first eye done with a Symfony multifocal toric
lens (+$3K) and has the same thing but much brighter, and she is unable
to see through the ray.

That surgeon says swelling, wait for it to go down, maybe toric lens,
we'll see... She goes back next Thursday to see him.

Since mine has been with me for quite a while, the possibility that hers
will disappear seems unlikely.

WTF is the problem and is it fixable?

--
Cheers, Bev
"The last thing you want is for somebody to commit suicide
before executing them."
-Gary Deland, former Utah director for corrections

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